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What are the two critical assumptions in the standard model of systems consolidation?

Damage to the hippocampus after contextual fear conditioning produces severe amnesia for contextual fear memory.

What is the effect of damaging the hippocampus prior to contextual fear conditioning.

In their review of the human amnesia literature, Nadel and Moscovitch concluded that if the hippocampal system is severely damaged, there may be sparing of either remote or recent episodic memories.

According to the standard model of systems consolidation, damage to the hippocampus would not cause retrograde amnesia if it occurred weeks after the memory was consolidated.

The animal research literature provides strong support for the standard model of systems consolidation.

According to the competitive trace theory of systems consolidation, _______. (Select all that apply.)

According to the standard model of systems consolidation, the hippocampus is only temporarily involved in the consolidation of episodic and semantic memories.

Damage to the hippocampus prior to contextual fear conditioning does not produce amnesia.

What is the term for a specific type of event that is directly related to patient safety and not related to the natural course of the patient’s illness or underlying condition?